Raigad (Maharashtra), (Samajweekly) Four-year-old Mohammed N. Bangi was pulled out amid cries of joy and applause on Tuesday afternoon from under the rubble of a five-storey building that collapsed a day earlier in Mahad town, police officials said.
Even as desperate teams of NDRF, SDRF, Raigad Police and Mahad fire brigade dug into the rubble to detect and dig out the trapped victims, early on Tuesday morning, the rescuers noticed the movement of a tiny leg between two broken pillars with tonnes of debris dangerously strewn all around, and one NDRF man rushed to pull him out.
Just then, Mohammed responded with a cry, indicating he was alive and apparently well, which was heartening for the rescue teams, said a Raigad Police official at the site.
The teams immediately swung into action and using metal cutters, they managed to slice through the pillars, carefully shifting the debris around using JCBs and finally reached the terrified, crying boy lying beneath.
The NDRF personnel bent to lift him up from the dark hole, and Mohammed emerged into the daylight, bewildered, and blinking his eyes, crying with relief and joy, and wailing for his ‘Ammi’ and ‘Abbu’ (mother and father).
“The ‘Miracle Boy” has been rescued alive. He is God’s child,” said NDRF director-general Satya Narayan Pradhan, after Mohammed’s safe rescue.
Late on Tuesday, the Raigad district authorities confirmed that Mohammed’s mother Nausheen, 30, sisters Ayesha, 7, and Rukaiya, 2, had perished in the tragedy, though details of other family members are not available...
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